During Pride month, Amazon’s affinity group for the LGBT community glamazon hosted celebrations around the globe – including Pride parades, raising the flag over our HQ and even helping with an engagement at a Pride parade.

Last Friday we hosted our second annual ‘Bring Your Parents to Work Day’ at our Seattle Headquarters. Thousands of employees showed their parents around campus and took part in activities including learning how to screen print at the Expressions art activity and a Prime Video screening of The Tick.

Since 2014, Amazon has proudly served as a recruiting partner to the Forté Foundation– a non-profit focused on enhancing gender diversity among MBAs and helping women start careers in business and finance. Last month we were honored to further our relationship with the organization by hosting the 10th Annual Forté MBA Women’s Leadership Conference.

Over 300 million people worldwide celebrate Nowruz, the Iranian New Year, to mark the beginning of spring. On March 24th, over 100 Amazon employees and their families gathered to celebrate Nowruz for the first time as a community. The event featured food, dancing, and speeches from Amazon leaders and Washington State Lt. Governor Cyrus Habib.

Amazon Diversity Programs Director Latasha Gillespie and five other women share their thoughts on what inspired them to build lives and careers that exemplify this year's International Women's Day theme: #BeBoldForChange. Watch Gillespie in the video above and read on to meet an AWS technologist, an entrepreneur who sells on Amazon, a Kindle Direct Publishing author, an operations director in Amazon's fulfillment network, and a member of the Fire TV team.